This document provides details on how Dell, Inc. used Oracle's Subledger Accounting (SLA) functionality in E-Business Suite R12 to automate accounting entries for receipts. Key points:
1) Previously, receipts were defaulted to incorrect cost centers, requiring manual reclassification. Using SLA rules, Dell automated deriving the correct cost center segments for each receipt based on customer and sales channel mappings.
2) The solution involved creating PL/SQL code to determine segments, custom sources to call the code, accounting rules to derive segments, journal line definitions, and validating the application accounting definition.
3) This allowed receipts to automatically be applied to the right cost center, eliminating